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Business, Innovation and Skills: First Capital Connect (12 Nov 2009) has video

Kelvin Hopkins: As a daily user of First Capital Connect services, I have a personal interest in the situation—particularly today, because train cancellations caused me to miss Question Time. Last year First Capital Connect was given the Evening Standard award for the company that combined the worst service with the biggest profits. May I ask my hon. Friend to intervene with the company, and suggest...

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service: Finance (12 Nov 2009)

Kelvin Hopkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding his Department has allocated to the Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service in each of the last three years; and for what purposes.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Sixth Form Colleges (12 Nov 2009)

Kelvin Hopkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether a college not established as a sixth form college under Schedule 8 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill is prevented from using the title of sixth form college; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Academies (9 Nov 2009)

Kelvin Hopkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what estimate he has made of (a) the number of and (b) the cost to his Department of unfilled places for 16 to 19 year-olds in academies; (2) what mechanism exists for the return to his Department of funding allocated to academies for 16 to 19 year-olds that remains unused at the end of financial year 2008-09.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 37 — The Comptroller and Auditor General (4 Nov 2009) has video

Kelvin Hopkins: I give notice that I shall seek leave to withdraw amendment 68, but I want to make a few remarks in response to the debate. First, I thank my hon. Friend the Minister for her kind remarks about my health: it is improving but it is not quite there yet. The amendment has provoked a debate, and that is important. I was particularly impressed by the speech from the hon. Member for Gainsborough...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 37 — The Comptroller and Auditor General (4 Nov 2009) has video

Kelvin Hopkins: I beg to move amendment 68, page 18, line 19, at end add— '(9) The principal function of the Comptroller and Auditor General is to further the purposes of national audit set out in section [Purpose of Part 7] by way of investigation and report.'.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 37 — The Comptroller and Auditor General (4 Nov 2009) has video

Kelvin Hopkins: It gives me great pleasure to speak to these amendments, if briefly. In a major piece of legislation it is important that its purposes should be clear, but the Bill nowhere specifies the purposes and aims of national audit, although the National Audit Act 1983 does so. The amendments are intended to remedy that omission.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 37 — The Comptroller and Auditor General (4 Nov 2009) has video

Kelvin Hopkins: I accept entirely what my right hon. Friend says, but I hope that one purpose of the Bill is to restate the objectives of audit.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 37 — The Comptroller and Auditor General (4 Nov 2009) has video

Kelvin Hopkins: Clearly my right hon. Friend and I disagree, but I hope it will be accepted that the restatement of the 1983 Act would not go amiss in the Bill. New clause 41 is intended to be inserted at the head of part 7. It repeats the opening of the 1983 Act, with the addition of the word "probity", which seems appropriate in current terms. Amendment 68 is intended to make clear the function of the...